Improvement in combined tools



' knit'efblades, as hereinaftery described.

, UNITED N STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM BARTLE, OF FRANKLIN, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,69 3, dated March 11, 1873.

To all rwhom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM BARTLE, of

Franklin, inthe county of Venan go and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a -new and valuable Improvement in Combined rIools;

' and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the. annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and `to the letters and igures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of thcdrawing is a representation of my pocket-tool closed. Fig. 2. is a side view of my pocket-tool open.

'This invention has relation to pocket-tools; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in conneetionwith a suitably partitioned case-handle, of aspirit-level, calipers, dividers, try-square, and the ordinary' The object of the present invention is to provide in a convenient form, to lloe always carried about the person.,i certain small tools of especial use in small carpentry-work or eabinetmaking, whereby the expense of large tools as well as their bulk may be avoided.

In the accompanying drawing, the letterA designates the case-handle, having the gen eral shape of an ordinary knife-handle, having a perfectly-straight back, B, serving for one arm of the try-square, the other arm of which is formed by the graduated', parallelsided blade or rule C, which is hinged to the ease at the end,'and adapted to shut down between two of its partitions, like the knifeblades D, E, and F. G indicates the side of .the case, which bears at the middle portion ol' the front edge the spirit-level H, arranged parallel with the straight back B of the case.

The side or wall G is for this purpose generally made thicker than its fellow. K indicates a pair of calipers, hinged together and to the casin g at its end in such a manner that when not required for use they can be shut kwithin the same between the partition-walls.

In testimony that I claimv the above I have hereunto subscribed-my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM BARTLE.

Witnesses:

MosEs J. GoLMA-N, H. J. SAYLER. 

